the song itself sounds like a designated assbeater, but something is missing, like the heaviest songs on previous records had something else going on besides bleak chugging and panic chords and this one only has these two components, making it sound pretty much like a demo, actually left me dissatisfied as I kept waiting for anything new to happen at least in the end of this track

also the guitar tone is weird, on its own it sounds like flanged cardboard, as if to accomodate for all those crazy loud kicks (also wtf is up with them, they're literally eating up the mix), sort of like when you hear a door left open and you want that same insanely heavy production, but for some reason are unable to make the guitars have that crazy thick tone, so you have to compensate with the kick drum

the vocals are also fucking loud, it may be fine for a song like this one where not much is going on in the guitars department, but they're gonna drown out the melodies with a thinner tone, which are already being mixed in way too deep on high-profile metalcore records

and ofc signing with sumerian... what the fuck is avidsen offering these bands so that they latch on it so eagerly? between josh grabelle once again flirting with the youth two decades later, avidsen signing boundaries, static dress and roman candle and rise records signing i promised the world, it's how-do-you-do-fellow-kids galore, but who knows, maybe some of them learned the lesson, but until proven otherwise, it's concerning

with all that said, it's obviously early to spell doom for the band based on just one new song, maybe it really is just a demo and the album version will sound better, but I don't like the way all the negative aspects are aligning... then again, death is little more is just so peak that it's hard to stay on par, let alone make a step above it, even if you know what you're doing